This month the Hodderscape team have been busy preparing for The Great Office Move. This mainly involves a lot of things to do with boxes. Boxes of various shapes and sizes, some filled with books, some filled with museum pieces such as VHS tapes and CDs. Also an exercise ball pump. Anyway, in amongst all this frivolity we have found some time for forms of entertainment that don’t involve cardboard boxes. Here are the best of ’em:

Angels! Chimera! Parallel worlds! Tragic love! Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone series is truly epic. So epic, in fact, that you might be forgiven for being a bit rusty on some of the finer plot points. Don’t worry, we’ve got just the solution.

One of the best things about fiction is that there are no limits to what you can expect from a character. This ranges from powers and abilities right the way to their appearance. Today I’ve been thinking about hair, in particular.

Becky Chambers self-published her debut novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, in July of last year. In the nine months since, she’s picked up a massive cult following, a traditional publishing deal (with us!) and major awards-shortlisting. Today she shares a few words of inspiration to anyone else out there with a dream.

In honour of St Patrick’s Day we shared some Irish fantasy fiction you can enjoy on the web, and today team Hodderscape share their favourite Irish things. Please note that we don’t believe the people in this post are ‘things’, and we are merely using the term ‘thing’ to allow for a list that includes both Jamie Dornan and a delicious variety of Irish Goat’s cheese.

No amount of prequel-induced cynicism can stop our hearts soaring like the Millennium Falcon when we hear there’s a new Star Wars movie approaching.

Make no mistake, we’re all going to see it. But then, we went to the prequels, and they were mostly awful. Those films showed us that there are many ways the next-gen Star Wars can go wrong. But we shouldn’t flirt with the Dark Side – let’s look at how they could go right.